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Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 10-07-2019 - 07:36

Hot Water Wrote:
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> T. Ernie Ford Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If SOO 1003 can burn coal today, then why were
> > some coal fired locomotives recently converted
> to
> > oil, like UP 4014 and RDG 2100?
>
> 1) The SOO 1003 has always been a coal burner, and
> doesn't set wayside fires in the area that it
> operates.
>
> 2) UP 4014 was converted to oil burning in order
> that it could travel throughout the entire UP
> system without setting wayside fires, just like
> 3985 was converted to oil burning back in
> 1989/1990.
>
> 3) Reading 2100 is NOT being converted to oil, in
> fact it is being returned to burning coal after
> the disastrous "oil burning" trials in Tacoma,
> Wash. quite some years ago.
>
> I also read that
> > NP 924 is being converted from coal to presto
> > log.
> >
> > Photo:
> >
> >
> [live.staticflickr.com]
>
> > 73afd61_c.jpg
> >
> >
> [www.flickr.com]
>
> > 3751


By disastrous oil conversion, do you mean the excessive black and white smoke coming out of the 2100’s stack?

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal T. Ernie Ford 10-06-2019 - 19:08
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Hot Water 10-07-2019 - 02:59
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Barry Sotoro 10-07-2019 - 07:26
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Soo Line & Walleye Fan 10-07-2019 - 19:44
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal HUTCH 7.62 10-07-2019 - 07:36
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal My Heavens! 10-07-2019 - 09:20
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal HUTCH 7.62 10-07-2019 - 09:45
  RDG 2100 Hen Party Cluck cluck 10-07-2019 - 18:47


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